
Jews considered
Themselves
Set apart
A holy people
Of Yahweh
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Clean
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And when
Defiled
For any reason
There was
Purification
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Also before
Coming
In the presence
Of
Yahweh
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By sprinkling
Blood
Of animals
Killed
As sacrifice
For atonement
Of sins
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Before the tabernacle
Was installed
Commandments given
Leper healed
Dead visited
Or even a
Fungus infested house
Cleaned
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The Jews
Blood sprinkled
On the Ark
For purification
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Later in
Mosaic law
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By washing
Hands and clothes
And shaving hair
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In the new
Jesus wiped out
All this
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The Sabbath
Keep it holy
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He said
It’s not a sin
To heal
On a sabbath
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No fasting
On the Sabbath
Feast
The bridegroom
Is here
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Purification rituals
For women
On childbirth
Forty days
No coming before
The presence of God
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Mary followed
A jew
She came
For the presentation
To the Tempe
At forty days
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A tradition
We too
Followed
Till of late
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It is mentioned
In the Bible
In the New Testament
We were told
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No longer
We believe
Menstruation
Impure
Nor in
Ritual purification
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Redemption
Of the firstborn
Of Jesus
In obedience
In obedience
Of the scriptures
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Our children
They are redeemed
By Jesus’ blood
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Now purification
Means consecration
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Two turtle doves
Mary bought
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Today
Don’t fly kites
We might injure
The pigeons
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As civilisation evolves
Our conscience
It pricks us even more
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Some kind of cruelty
To animals
Is banned
Even punishable
By law
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Except for
Consumption
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There too
We are trying
To find
Humane ways to kill
Or even
Not eat
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Religion is not
Rigid
It changes
We’re catholics
We don’t interpret
Literally
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Now we have
Baptism
Eucharist
Confirmation
Penance
Annointing
Marriage
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The outpouring
Of the Holy Spirit
To make us holy
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We must therefore
Look ahead
With one foot firmly behind
Accepting the new
But grounded in truth
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Not using
Verses singled
Out
To hurt
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Remember
The devil
Is also
A master
At scripture
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In Gods presence
We must come
Purified
Our hearts forgiving
Full of love
For God
And neighbor
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He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
The rituals of old
They don’t matter
We don’t have to take
Those turtle doves
Or wait forty days
As Mary did
It is Jesus
Who purifies
Washes away our sins
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